conventicle (konventikl)

i.; pret. and pp. conventicled, ppr. conventicling. [ Conventicling schools, set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South , Works, V. i. conventicler (kon-ven'ti-klėr), n. One who supports or frequents conventicles; specifically, a Scottish Covenanter. Having run a mile through such difficult places, he was quite spent, and the conventiclers hard at his heels. Swift, Memoir of Capt. Creichton.